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Ellsworth Kelly stamps arriving May 31, 2019

In the USPS Postal Bulletin today it includes announcing the Ellsworth Kelly stamps arriving May 31, 2019.

If you can be in Spencertown, NY on May 31, 2019, you could make arrangements prior to attend the first day of issue ceremony. The stamps are calling out to me that while they are for First-Class Forever mail rate, they are going to look amazing on some of the postcards and notecards we have been looking at here at AnchoredScraps over the past few years!

They are issuing 10 designs, in a pane of 20 stamps, noting the Ellsworth Kelly stamps cannot be sold individually.

“This stamp issue honors artist Ellsworth Kelly (1923–2015). Kelly pioneered a distinctive style of abstraction based on real elements reduced to their essential forms. His artworks include paintings, sculpture, and works on paper.”

Ellsworth Kelly stamps arriving May 31, 2019

I’m including the below excerpt from the Postal Bulletin. In addition, I’m grouping the entire list into paragraph format.

“This stamp issue honors artist Ellsworth Kelly (1923–2015). Kelly pioneered a distinctive style of abstraction based on real elements reduced to their essential forms. His artworks include paintings, sculpture, and works on paper. The 20 stamps on the pane feature 10 pieces, each represented twice:

In checking the USPS Postal Store just now, I’m not finding the Ellsworth Kelly stamps listing for pre-ordering. However, I know it will be out there soon! In the meantime, I’m really looking forward to their arrival!

Join me tomorrow for my Friday blog post, as we head into the last weekend in April 2019!

Image from 4-29-2017 post

Anchors Aweigh,

Helen

P.S. The gorgeous Rothko Thank You note I received last week from a WordCamp buddy will be perfect with these stamps, I’m looking forward to sharing the news about the Ellsworth Kelly stamps with him, and to blog about those notecards here in a future blog post!